Creative Quotes

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There is the happiness which comes from creative effort. The joy of dreaming, creating, building, whether in painting a picture, writing an epic, singing a… — Henry Miller
I think women dwell quite a bit on the duress under which they work, on how hard it is just to do it at all.… — Toni Morrison
Thrift is poetic because it is creative; waste is unpoetic because it is waste. — Gilbert K. Chesterton
What is real to me is the power of our awareness when we are focused on something beyond ourselves. It is a shaft of light… — Terry Tempest Williams
The most creative act you will ever undertake is the act of creating yourself. — Deepak Chopra
Respectability, regularity, and routine - the whole cast-iron discipline of a modern industrial society - have atrophied the artistic impulse, and imprisoned love so that… — Bertrand Russell
Theologians in all the great faiths have devised all kinds of myths to show that this type of kenosis, of self-emptying, is found in the… — Karen Armstrong
But the great artists like Michelangelo and Blake and Tolstoi--like Christ whom Blake called an artist because he had one of the most creative imaginations… — Brenda Ueland
My mind is a raging torrent, flooded with rivulets of thought cascading into a waterfall of creative alternatives. — Mel Brooks
I believe in Eternity. I can find Greece, Palestine, Italy, Spain, and the Islands, - the Genius and creative Principle of each and of all… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
Freedom is only to be found where there is burden to be shouldered. In creative achievements this burden always represents an imperative and a need… — Martin Heidegger
Pittsburgh was even more vital, more creative, more hungry for culture than New York. Pittsburgh was the birthplace of my writing. — Willa Cather
Be creative, be useful, be practical, be generous and finish big — Lisa Genova
Well, that's why smart people get tripped up with worry and fear. Worry...fear...is just a misuse of the creative imagination that has been placed in… — Andy Andrews
Philosophy, for Plato, is a kind of vision, the 'vision of truth'...Everyone who has done any kind of creative work has experienced, in a greater… — Bertrand Russell
Idealism does not represent a superfluous expression of emotion, but in truth it has been, is, and will be, the premise for what we designate… — Adolf Hitler
The Bible makes it clear that every time that there is a story of faith, it is completely original. God's creative genius is endless. — Eugene H. Peterson
When we treat children's play as seriously as it deserves, we are helping them feel the joy that's to be found in the creative spirit.… — Fred Rogers
I thought I'd pay you a visit, my dear. Since you're so interesting." My mouth shifted into high gear, leaving my brain behind. "You know,… — Lilith Saintcrow
My children have always existed at the deepest center of me, right there in the heart/hearth, but I struggled with the powerful demands of motherhood,… — Sue Monk Kidd

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